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reinstall Multimedia SP2?

gwpinetree

Posted 30 September 2006 - 02:14 PM

gwpinetree

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I had a new motherboard installed recently and sound has been a problem ever since.

I'm messed around,a nd seem to have removed multimedia support. All I have now is the Microsoft kernel Wave Audio Mixer, but in Device Manager there an error:
"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory. (Code 38)"

If I try to reinstall it from Add/remove Windows components, multimedia doesn't show up anywhere.

I suspect there's a way to reinstall multimedia from the command line (I believe all the files are in the SP2 i386 directory). but I haven't found it.

I've been through every damned diagnostic I can find on the web. I'm this close to reinstalling, but am concerned that that will cause as many problems as it'll solve. :-)